Sunday, June 14, 2020
Last night I watched Mandingo, a film from 1975 about a black slave fighter named Mene who lives on a slave breeding plantation and endures all sorts of unimaginable horrors before eventually being boiled to death in a caldroun of water.
Venisa at work mentioned the film to me. She said her great-grandmother, who remembered that time as a young girl, found the film accurate.
It was something watching such a brutle depiction of slavery from a 1970s production. It had more in common with Ten Years a Slave than Gone With the Wind. Perhaps it will experience the opposite effect of what Gone With the Wind is currently facing. I read Roger Ebert's 1975 review of this film and it's very a interesting read: Roger Ebert's Review of Mandingo
I went to bed around 2 and woke up around 8:30.
After a few chores and items around the house, I spent the rest of the afternoon on Grandudes. I need to make this script a priority. There's so much left to be done. Scenes 5-7 have been on my to-do list since last week. Reimagining some of the details is tricky.
For dinner, Alice made her absolutely delicious chicken katsu dish. I just gobbled it up it was so good!
Venisa at work mentioned the film to me. She said her great-grandmother, who remembered that time as a young girl, found the film accurate.
It was something watching such a brutle depiction of slavery from a 1970s production. It had more in common with Ten Years a Slave than Gone With the Wind. Perhaps it will experience the opposite effect of what Gone With the Wind is currently facing. I read Roger Ebert's 1975 review of this film and it's very a interesting read: Roger Ebert's Review of Mandingo
I went to bed around 2 and woke up around 8:30.
After a few chores and items around the house, I spent the rest of the afternoon on Grandudes. I need to make this script a priority. There's so much left to be done. Scenes 5-7 have been on my to-do list since last week. Reimagining some of the details is tricky.
For dinner, Alice made her absolutely delicious chicken katsu dish. I just gobbled it up it was so good!
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